Smyrna times., 1887-01-26
Smyrna and Vicinity.

Smyrna and Vicinity.
PUR not your trust in money, but put
your money in trust.
THE past month is said to have been
the coolest December in seven years.
Two or three communications in
tended for this issue have been crowded
out.
Dry buckwheat flour applied to spots
of grease upon the most delicate fabrics
will remove them.
HERMAN Roe will address a public
Temperance meeting at Morton on
Friday evening of this week.
DR. JOHN NJ. BOYD is attending
valuable horse of l. N. Millsat Clayton
that has been seriously afflicted.
THE "big" church wedding has been
the special topic for a week past among
the young people, to which might be
added that other large class of ''village
gossipers."
UNLESS severe cold weather sets in
and closes navigation the steamer
Iygert will commence Monday, Jan
uary 3lst, and resume her regular trips
as per time table.
WE are indebted to S. S. Voshell,
superintendent of the John Hancock
Life Insurance Agency, of Boston, for
merly of this vicinity, for beautiful
calendar of 1887.
THE annual winter oyster suppers
down the Meek" little DELAYED this
year probably by the frigid weather,
had starter on Thursday night at the
Clement Brothers, in Raymond's Neck.
WIN. A. WINgoRD got back into his
store on Saturday, after an outing of
over three weeks by the fire, and was
more pleased than the average pupil
on re-entering school after a vacation.
REV. JAMES CARROLL, now of Green
wood, on a recent visit to Leipsic,
where he served as pastor last year,
was waited on by a number Of old
friends with substantial tokens of re-
gard
THE Wilmington papers note that B.
V. Weldon, President, and Samuel
Taylor, Chief of the Citizens Hose
Company, were in that city last week
examining the equipments of their fire
companies.
THE steamer Iygert will run as fol-
lows next week: Rothwell's, Monday.
January 3lst, at II P. NJ, Wednesday,
February 2nd, at 3 Pm. Philadelphia,
Tuesday 1st, at 10 A. NJ, Friday, Feb
ruary 4th. at IL AN.
JANUARY 1st, 1886, there was no frost
in the ground. January 1st, 1887, ice
was ten inches thick and the ground
was frozen nearly that depth, but all
thawed out by the warm spell ending
Saturday and Sunday.
F. J. CARTER and John Mannering
have formed a partnership for car
rying on the painting, glazing and
paper-hanging business, and will oc-
cupy after the first of March the room
now used by Mr.. Carter as an oyster
saloon.
WE have received from the publishers
of the american AgricuIturist three
of the series of Homes of our Former
Presidents" They are Mt. Vernon,
the home of Washington; Monticello,
the home of Jefferson, and the Her
mitage, the home of Jackson.
a PUBLIC MEETING of Cereal Grange.
No 36, Downs Chapel, will be held on
Friday next, the 28th inst, at I.8O
o'clock P. NJ, in the church of that
place, the meeting to be addressed by
A. X. Brown, Master of State Grange,
and John G. Higgins, State Lecturer.
The farmers are invited to attend.
WE record elsewhere the death OF
one of our oldest citizens, Mrs. Catha-
rine Wilson in her 90 year. She had
heen in feeble health for some wears
We also record the deaths of Mrs
Isaac Senix, daughter of T. F. J. Smith
near MillingtOn, and Mrs. Clayton,
mother Of L. Thomas Clayton, of the
Smyrna House.
The weather Saturday and Sunday
was in marked contrast to the most O
that which had prevailed the previous
six weeks, the mercury rising to 65o
bringing out the bees and wasps, and
making coal fires in measure uncOm.
Portable. The northwest wind and
falling but melting snow of the follow
ing day was more comfortable.
| CROss-TIEs, which have heretofore
been bringing so cents each, have ad
vanced to 80 cents. IL is a wonder from
the great destruction of young white
oaks and other timber for railroad tie.
during the past thirty years, in add
ton to the great destruction of our for
ests Tor other purposes, that the con
unued and large demand could be met
GEO. w. & s. TAYLOR shipped las
week TO Denmark, across the Atlantic
Little Diamond Sulky Cultivator
Their greatly enlarged facilities in tn,
way of readjusted aud additional new
machinery has enabled them to put OF
a much larger force Of workmen. all O
winch was necessary to prepare then
70 anything like meet the orders fo
their improved farm implements.
A COMPANY Of young men hav,
rented of Mrs. John G. Bailey the dwell
ling part Of the property recent,
bought of her mother, Mrs. Ellen Cum
MINIS, corner of Main and Mount Yer
non streets, for the purpose of a privat
J boarding house for their individual us
and comfort This does not includ
the corner rooms so long used by DI
VIM. Cummins for an Office, which ar
yet unprovided for.
VIM. H. DAWSON, former residen
! Of our town, in a business note i
! speaking Of farming in the vicinity 9
stanton, says: We are having a YER
rough winter. Quite a number Of farm
ers are not done husking corn. In tn
. fall, corn husking time, hands wer
scarce and demanded S1.O0 per da
, with board. Corn 35 to 38 cents DC
bushels, farmers did not have the dil
position to pay the high wages, an
, worked at the corn themselves mostly
: and winter set in early and caught
I great deal Of corn Ia the shock.
: great many are making sales and qui
Z ting the business, wages being too hig
: ] for the price of grain